Yibin

English

Alternative forms

• I-pin (Wade–Giles)
• Yipin

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜賓／宜宾 (Yíbīn).

Proper noun

Yibin

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2007, Dan Armstrong, chapter 12, in Taming the Dragon‎^[1] (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

     About six that evening, they motored beneath the Jiang’an Changliang Bridge and into the city of Yibin, known from ancient times as the source of the Yangtze. And so said Yong just as the Great River split into the Jin Sha River to the right and Min River to the left.

   • 2012 May 30, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Do You Know the Way to Wuliangye?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-05-31, Letter from China‎^[3]:

     Officials in Yibin, a city of 4.5 million, announced last week that they would name their new airport after the blindingly strong Wuliangye.

   • 2020 September 5, “China jails 2 for hiding trip to city at center of outbreak”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 December 2023, Asia & Pacific‎^[5]:

     After returning from Wuhan, the pair visited supermarkets and other public places in the western city of Yibin in Sichuan province for more than a week before showing symptoms, the People’s Court of Cuping District in Yibin said Saturday on its social media account.

Synonyms

• Süchow

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宜賓／宜宾 (zh) (Yíbīn)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yibin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3527, column 3